Pelion

and Pelios , a celebrated mountain of The aly, whose top is covered with pine trees. In their wars against the gods, the giants, as the poets mention, placed mount O a upon Pelion, to scale the heavens with more facility. The celebrated spear of Achilles, which none but the hero could wield, had been cut down on this mountain, and was thence called Pelias . It was a present from his preceptor Chiron, who, like the other Centaurs, had fixed his residence here. Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 1 , li. 155 ; bk. 13 , li. 199 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 3 .— Strabo , bk. 9 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 281 ; bk. 3 , li. 94 .— Seneca , Hercules & Medea .